The Kingdom of God!

 

Chapter 79

 

For the last two weeks I have been sharing with you about the right and left hand of God. The right hand of God is used to bless us and the left hand of God is used to discipline us. You may say to me, "David, I must be alright in God's sight because my life has been a life pretty much of ease!" To which, I would say to you, "What have you been doing in your life to further the Kingdom of God?"

 

I remember when the Lord called me to be a pastor. I have always endeavored to walk through any door that the Lord opened for me but if I had known what all I would be put through and the opposition that I would face, even from Christians, I would have had to take a long look at what I was getting myself into.

 

Anytime you have been anointed by the Lord to do His work, you are going to face opposition. I could write a very large book about all the trials of my faith that I have gone through. The Apostle Peter said in 1Pet. 4:12-13, (NIV)

 

"Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice in as much as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed."

 

Any time you stand up and declare the truth to religious people who have bought into the old-time religion, you are going to face opposition. On the most part, people are much like a coil in electronics. A coil will oppose any change in voltage, either positive or negative. Most Christians are like that. They don't want to change their way of understanding what the Bible says. They will say something like this, "Well, bless God, it was good enough for my mom and dad and it is good enough for me!"

 

This kind of thinking will cause you to be unteachable in the things of the Lord and you will never grow up and be a son of God because you refuse to change your thinking when you hear the truth. Stephen had something to say about this to the religious people in his day! Acts 7:51, (NIV)

 

"You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!"

 

The great Apostle Paul instructed us in Rom. 12:2,

 

"Be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."

 

Consider all the things Paul went through to carry out the calling of the Lord in his life. In 2 Cor. 11:24-28 he lists some of them.

 

 

"Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was pelted with stones, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea, I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false believers. I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked. Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches."

 

If you have the calling of God to be a leader in the Body of Christ, He will bring people and circumstances your way to test you to enable you to become stronger and to overcome them and stand up for the truth He has revealed to you. God told Joshua in Joshua 1:9,

 

"Have not I commanded you? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever you go."

 

Here is an example of this in my life. I was in South Africa on a missionary trip and when I got home one of my elders picked me up at the airport and told me that one of the local Assembly of God pastors had falsely accused me of teaching Jesus only and oneness and the Appalachian District Superintendent sent out a letter to all the pastors in his region that they were banned from speaking in our church. My elder told me that he had set up a meeting with them in Huntington, WV to resolve this issue.

 

Just to show you how the Lord works on our behalf, one of our teachers just happen to be at in the church office when the phone rang and an Assembly of God pastor from Virginia called and ask her if we knew about this letter. He said that he didn't agree with what the letter said so he called us to let us know. As soon as she told my elder about this, he arranged the meeting. When we got to the meeting there was a local pastor that I had known for a long time, and I had attended his church and helped him build a new church building. There were several other ministers there, along with the pastor that had accused me.

 

We denied the false accusations and the pastor that had accused me was set straight. They even went so far as to invite me to be one of their pastors. I told them no thanks that is not what the Lord called me to do. As a result of that opposition, we were given the opportunity to stand up for what is right. We could have just sat by and allowed the rumor to continue among the community. This is why so many large churches prosper and grow because their leaders tell them what they want to hear and not what the Lord is saying.

 

There is a song sang by The Imperials that states,

 

"He never said you'd only see sunshine, He never said there'd be no rain, He only promised us a heart full of singing about the very thing that once brought pain!"

 

When you step out for the Lord and declare what the Spirit of the Lord is revealing to you, it will bring you opposition from those who are not willing to accept the truth and from those who have allowed religion to blind them.

 

Most pastors will not say anything from the pulpit about what is going on in our nation because of being afraid of offending someone and as a result of this there are so many churches that are not involved in the spiritual warfare that is occurring in our nation. You may not agree with me about what is going on in our nation today, but before you oppose me, do some research of your own and don't buy into what the media is feeding you daily.

 

On The Political Front

Democrats continue to descend into disarray. There is open rebellion on the Left. And now Chuck Schumer is about to run headfirst into this massive defeat. The latest government inflation report in January showed prices surged 7.5 percent year-over-year. That explosion in inflation scared the Democrats who are running for re-election.

Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly "one of the most endangered Democrat incumbents in America" publicly broke with Joe Biden and said he was not happy with the administration's handling of the issue. "No. Until "I mean, until it comes down to something that's more sustainable and that families across the country can actually deal with, no," Senator Kelly told CNN.

But the biggest blow to Biden's agenda came from West Virginia Democrat Senator Joe Manchin, who threw cold water on Chuck Schumer's attempt to revive a nearly $5 trillion socialist spending bill. Manchin blasted the rampant inflation on Biden's watch as a massive tax increase on the American people. "I've been ringing the alarm bell forever "I mean, for the last year about inflation. Nobody's been listening. Now, we're seeing a basic threat. It's a 7.5% tax on everybody, on every product you buy. "It's just unbelievable," Manchin told West Virginia Metro News Talkline with Hoppy Kercheval."

Manchin added that it was time for the Federal Reserve to do its job and end the practice of cheap money. "So, it's time for the Federal Reserve to tackle the issue head-on. They can't be pussyfooting around like they've been," Manchin added. Manchin supported ending quantitative easing and raising interest rates as "the only way they've ever been able to control it. I mean, you've got to stomp it down. I mean, if you don't, it's going to continue to run. 7.5%, that's the highest in four decades, 40 years, it's just unbelievable. And we're not doing anything about it. We're just sitting back there and watching it."

Manchin also opposed any new socialist spending, saying "Now is not a time to be throwing caution to the wind and putting more trillions of dollars out." Without Joe Manchin's vote, any massive socialist spending bill is dead.

Chuck Schumer hoped to pass trillions in new socialist spending to transform America into a cradle-to-grave welfare state before the November elections. That now looks like a pipedream.

Lawyer, Jay Sekulow wrote,

A BOMBSHELL new court filing from Special Counsel John Durham, who was appointed to investigate the nefarious origins of the Russia Hoax, has unearthed NEW evidence that the Clinton Campaign used false information to push the FBI to investigate President Trump.

In fact, one of the most shocking revelations is that Clinton hired a tech company to "exploit" Trump's servers, including in the Executive Office of the President inside the White House  to mine data and push a false narrative of Russian collusion. Clinton's lawyer then met with the then-FBI Director James Comey's General Counsel, part of what we've long called Comey's Circle of Corruption, to push for an investigation of Trump.We've been warning you just how bad and just how deep the Deep State corruption goes.

In fact, we're filing in federal court in JUST HOURS in our major lawsuit over Comey placing his own spies inside the White House around the same time period as the Clinton team was spying on Trump's servers.